The 2013 Oscar nominations solicited a few gasps from awards watchers on Thursday morning — not surprising in a year with so many fine films. But who will get the hardware come Feb. 24? And who was left out of the running altogether? Read on to find out.

Michael Haneke will win best director because is movie was far beyond superb than any movie released last year. Ang Lee's movie life of pi was second best. All the other movies aren't worthy of winning anything at all. IMO

Oscar nominations for the lullaby song in "Life of Pi" under the original song category has created a controversy in India. The nominations are for M.Danna for composing and Ms.Jaishri Ramnath (India) for the lyrics. Ms.Jaishri is an accomplished Indian classical singer, but not a lyricist. The contention is that the lyrics are not original and heavily influenced by another song.The twist is that Ms.Jaishri had sung the "original song" in one of her albums. The composer M.Danna had heard that song and approached her for the "Life of Pi" song.

Please explain why Jamie Foxx was not nominated for an Oscar
in DJango and yet the movie is up for several awards. How is that Denzel won
for Training Day? In case you missed it ... The Black man killing White slave
owners vs. the Black man killing his own race.

Though a lot of the nominations were unsurprising, I wasshocked at some of the Best Director snubs. A coworker at DISH and I are hugemovie buffs, so we both assumed Ben Affleck would be an obvious nomination. Nowthat he was taken out, it will be interesting to see if Lincoln has what ittakes to win. I am so glad that with all of the awards ceremonies approaching,that my DISH Hopper has 2,000 hours of storage space. With my late workschedule, I always make sure to program it to record all of the shows I watch.I love never having to miss a show, and it being able to fast forward through commercialson my recordings is a plus. Watching the awards season has been a tradition inmy family for years, so I can’t wait to see who walks away a winner this year.

It looks like most of the ocars went to people who were on HBO. A lot of us cannot afford HBO so we have no idea about their performances. I was bery disappointed that the actress nominated for an oscar on The Good Wife was ignored. I saw nothing in the lady show is in a drama on HBO